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    RR Q&A: What album or band do you feel like you're "supposed" to get, but just don't?

    I feel like this thread existed before but it must be lost to the archives. I'm not talking broadly popular music that you're in the minority on disliking-- rather, stuff that should theoretically be right up your alley that is just totally baffling in its lack of appeal. For instance, this morning I took my umpteenth stab at an album I've owned for the better part of a decade and just never liked, Polvo's Exploded Drawing. All the pieces are in place for me to enjoy this album (I unabashedly love their contemporaries at the artier end of the math-rock spectrum like Slint and Rodan, and they're an obvious influence on some current local bands that I like such as the STNNNG), but it just leaves me totally neutral. I don't hate it; I just can't tell what others love about it. I've stubbornly kept it in my collection even as I've sold off most of my other CDs because I always feel like one day I'm going to pull it out and just get it... but so far, no luck. Have y'all had similar experiences with other artists or records?



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    U2
    Red Hot Chillie Peppers
    Pearl Jam


    just to name a few

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    Five stars on AMG, critically acclaimed, yet Jeff Buckley's Grace leaves me cold. I just find it to be fairly boring -- not throw-a-shoe-at-the-speaker terrible or anything -- just meh.



    This is another album that has been revered, and after liking their first three Radiohead albums (yes, I do like Pablo Honey) and applauding them for taking a stylistic leap, I don't like Kid A at all. I spin it every 6 months or so, thinking it will hit me and I'll "get it" but never have.
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    Trout Mask Replica.

    I don't like others.

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    Modest Mouse
    LCD Soundsystem
    Luna

    Don't hate 'em. But not diggin' them either. Sorry.
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    Well, I don't care for Joy Division or Talk Talk so it makes sense that I don't like Interpol or Circulatory System. But then I really do like Woven Hand and Three Mile Pilot, which often get cited as being post-rock influenced.
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    Both of these groups came highly recommended and neither did anything for me.

    The Flaming Lips
    Death Cab For Cutie

    I tried watching them in concert on TV also and that didn't get it. I have a couple groups that I like watching in concert, but I can't listen to them. That probably sounds weird. They have such a stage presence that transends the music and makes it listenable.
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    Neil Young. By all accounts, I should love him. Canadian folk icon. Great songwriter. Accoustic guitar. All things that I normally love. I've tried and I've tried, but Mr. Young does nothing for me. He has written some great songs, but I've never been able to appreciate him as a performer.

    Bruce Springsteen...see above.

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    The 21st century Jimmy Buffet.

    I adored his 1970's & some 1980's material. I've even been to a couple of his concerts.

    His later albums struggle to make it to the source machine (CD/turntable). My hands just skip right over his 21st Century CDs and picks something else.
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    Marillion.

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    I dunno that I don't get him, his music is as straightforward and simple as it gets. I like a lot of his songs performed by others. I know he's one of America's most prolific, influential acts, but there just ain't enough time in the day for him and all the other music I'd rather hear instead of him.

    Jazz - Ornette Coleman; innovative? maybe, but unappealing to me. A good jazz artist tryin too hard to stand out among giants
    of his day
    Jazz Album - Miles Davis: Bitches Brew. Miles knew at this point it didn't matter what he did.

    Prog acts - I know as a ptog fan I'm supposed to like ELP, but I can't stand them. I don't care how influential they are to what I listen now, I don't know what they wasted more of, talent or electricity.

    Can - can't

    Gentle Giant gets on my nerves

    almost any "canterbury" act

    Prog Albums - Pink Floyd: Ummagumma. As much real effort went into this set as did coming up with an album title.

    as much as this pains me, add post-VH Sammy Hagar to the list. Instead of wanting to leave his former drunken employer in the dust by out-rocking him, he's been content to try and make the VOA album over and over while also trying become the hard rock version of Jimmy Buffet. Sad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3LB
    Prog acts - I know as a ptog fan I'm supposed to like ELP, but I can't stand them. I don't care how influential they are to what I listen now, I don't know what they wasted more of, talent or electricity.
    Hear, hear!

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    add Phish and Dave Matthews to the list. I don't get these two acts popularity like their followers don't get deoderant. I like a handful of their tunes, but find most of their work to be rather tedious, even grating. I find their fanbases' hero worship as awkward and unjustifiable as I do fan's of soccer who only watch the World Cup.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterCylinder
    Marillion.
    Agreed. Add The Flower Kings to the list also. I've tried to like both these bands. I WANT to like both these bands. I'm bored by both these bands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
    Agreed. Add The Flower Kings to the list also. I've tried to like both these bands. I WANT to like both these bands. I'm bored by both these bands.

    Cheers and a toast to FA !


    I will also add the Rolling Stones............they are sloppy............and I get it that it is supposed to be intentional but, as musicians they just aren't very good.
    I like the writing and the innovation...........and in that context I agree to the label of R&R legend...........but really............I've seen better garage bands.

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    I've tried and tried to get into them but these two bands don't twist my licorice at all.

    The Moody Blues

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    The Electric Light Orchestra
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    Lots of good ones posted so far. Here are mine. I pop them in every couple years to no avail.







    Also I've never generally been a big fan of the Beatles, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, or Jimi Hendrix. Those I get, I just don't spend anytime on them.
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    I could see how one could not like the shoegaze stuff. Having said that, Psychocandy is an all-time favorite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlumpBuster
    I've never generally been a big fan of the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, or Jimi Hendrix.

    Sacrilege.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterCylinder
    Marillion.
    Fish or "H"?

    I like the older way more than the newer stuff but have been pointed in the right direction.

    If you like old Genesis, find a track called Grendle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stone
    I could see how one could not like the shoegaze stuff. Having said that, Psychocandy is an all-time favorite.
    I know, right?! That's what everyone says about Psychocandy. And I love JMC especially for the way their studio records vary in sound and genre. Even you just saying that makes me want to listen again to double check.

    I was only in the 5th grade when Psychocandy came out and JMC was something my high school aged sister listened to that I thought was really far out. Just the name was so exotic. I was more into Van Halen at the time. Then when I went to college, I came home for Thanksgiving my freshman year having had my mind blown my college radio. My sister gave me a box of LPs and cassettes. In there was Automatic, which I instantly loved. Missing from that box was Psychocandy. I was into Stoned and Dethroned and Darklands before getting to Psychocandy. Maybe I would like it more if I had come to JMC through Psychocandy first?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterCylinder
    Sacrilege.
    Again, I know, right?

    To add insult to injury, there is more Yoko Ono product in my record collection than music from any of those bands. I just spun Milk and Honey this weekend prompting my wife to ask, "What the fcuk are you listening to?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlumpBuster
    Again, I know, right?

    To add insult to injury, there is more Yoko Ono product in my record collection than music from any of those bands. I just spun Milk and Honey this weekend prompting my wife to ask, "What the fcuk are you listening to?"
    That's funny. On the other hand, I may have one of the only wives that asks for Buckethead.
    Colma and Electric Tears are awesomely tasteful and easy for just about anyone to listen to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hyfi
    That's funny. On the other hand, I may have one of the only wives that asks for Buckethead.
    Colma and Electric Tears are awesomely tasteful and easy for just about anyone to listen to.
    Ha! Even Buckethead's own wife only barely tolerates him as she has been known to use the words "wanky" and "noodling" to describe him. You, sir, are indeed a lucky man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlumpBuster
    Maybe I would like it more if I had come to JMC through Psychocandy first?
    Possibly, but Psychocandy is a different animal from anything else they did (save for some singles and outtakes in the same time frame). Never again did they have that wall of sound and feedback covering the simple tunes and lyrics.

    And timing may make a difference. I was 16 when Psychocandy came out (similar to your sister) and have loved it since it was released. I do love Darklands and like the rest of what they did, but Psychocandy will always be their peak to me.

    And if you don't like it, you don't like it. There's nothing wrong with that.
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